Jan. 14, 2006 - The Books are always Better
Your favorite book in the world has just come out on DVD. Your family is going to watch it tonight and you are very excited.
When you get about half way through your popcorn, you begin to relize that this is not the way the story goes.
My family and I just watched A Wrinkle in Time. Throughout the movie, I kept thinking, "What about the three Mr. Jenkins'?" "I don't think that was in the book."
A lot of people I know, are well aquainted with the fact that the book is always better.
But why are the books better? Why are parts of the story added and taken out in a movie?
When a producer takes a story and wants to make it into a movie, he decides which parts he dosen't want in the movie. To make up for the missing information, the producer then has to make up parts of the tale, to make the movie story work.
A producer also makes the movie appealing to audiences. If he thinks that putting something in will make it to where people will want to see it, he will add it.
When an author writes his story, he writes it so that pretty much every part has vital information to the story. An author purposely put that part in the book because he needed a way to introduce certain elements into the story.
I used to want to become a movie producer, because then I could make a movie according to the book. Since then I have changed my mind, but it would be nice if someone would do that.
Comments
Jan. 17, 2006 - I agree
Posted by There are few books that I feel capture the true story of the book.Rarely is the movie better. I used to (still do! ) wish they would keep to the story. If it was a good book then enough people liked it. If I ever write a book I would not allow it to be changed. I would rather not have it made into a movie.
Edited by Deeonly1 on Jan. 17, 2006 at 4:18 PM
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